To create is to boggle the mind and alter the mood. Once the urge has surged it maintains its own momentum. We may go along for the ride but when we attempt to steer the course the momentum dies.

How I relate to my inner self influences my relationships with all others. My satisfaction with myself and my satisfaction with other people are directly proportional.

Make sure that your heartfelt thanksgiving is more consistent than your nagging needs and your passionate apology fervent than your unhealthy justifications. Be clean and hopeful.

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody.

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

If you invent frequently and are willing to fail, then you never get to that point where you really need to bet the whole company.

I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.

There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.

Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.

I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's